RDR

Peter Chadborn believes the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) may provide an opportunity for advisers to secure clients that banks cannot afford to service.

Tenet Support Services is considering becoming an accredited body in the wake of the FSA's confirmed policy on professionalism.

There has been much hype about client segmentation recently. But Paul Etheridge, founder and chairman of Prestwood Software, argues this is not necessarily the best strategy.

Helpfully, at the beginning of every FSA paper, there is a small section outlining who should read it.

Carl Lamb, managing director of IFA firm Almary Green, reveals his plans for RDR.

INVESTMENT TRUSTS

Sesame Bankhall Group has all but ruled itself out of applying to become an accredited body under the FSA's new professionalism regime.

The Plain English Campaign (PEC) has been fighting gobbledygook, jargon and misleading public information since 1979. Judging by last week's RDR professionalism paper it still has work to do at the FSA.

More than three quarters of advisers are confident they will still be trading come 1 January 2013, the day the RDR is introduced, according to Aviva research.

The FSA has reiterated qualifications gap-fill should be structured CPD, but it says reading 'suitable material' is acceptable where it is not available for specific knowledge gaps.